Departmental News

Awards are flying into the hands of exceptional employees within the College of Medicine’s Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics.

This year, Community Scientists Angela Howard, Stanley Richardson, Ty Davis, and Kristie Hill served as judges for poster presentations, offering valuable feedback grounded in lived experience and community perspectives.

At last year’s event, HOBI postdoctoral associate Rola Zeidan, Ph.D., won a community health award for the research poster “Iron levels in Postmenopausal Women.”

As the months accumulated, so did the accolades and accomplishments of our department. Take a stroll down HOBI’s memory lane as we revisit some of the moments, photos, and stories that got our attention this year.

Three instructors from the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics were honored by the College of Medicine with a 2025 Exemplary Teacher Award. They are: Professor Carla Fisher, Ph.D., M.S.W. Associate Professor Megan Gregory Ph.D. Assistant Professor…

Students and faculty members in the Division of Implementation Science and Health Interventions will feature prominently in the 18th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health.

Professor Ramzi Salloum, Ph.D., has been appointed as the Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics (HOBI). In this new role, he will focus on supporting faculty and trainees around strategic funding opportunities for research.

Please join me in congratulating Yi Guo, PhD, FAMIA, on being appointed as Division Chief for Biomedical Informatics and Data Science.

Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics (HOBI) faculty members will be sharing their research at the UF Health Cancer Center's Cancer AI Symposium on Nov. 5, 2025.

This new implementation research, titled Monitoring Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes During Cancer Treatment, will collect data from cancer patients over two years to investigate how the feedback system affects provider workload and patient behavior.